{"id":260,"date":"2017-02-21T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themegrill.com\/flash-pro\/?p=260"},"modified":"2020-02-19T23:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T23:24:55","slug":"casino-in-nevada-opening-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Poor internet could be holding back the UK&#8217;s SMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lousy connections lead to a decrease in productivity, a frustrated workforce and unhappy customers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employee productivity has always been an important pain point in UK businesses of all sizes, and now a new report claims that the quality of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/features\/eventually-everything-connects-the-business-impact-of-connectivity\/\">internet connections<\/a>&nbsp;could play a major role.<\/p>\n<p>Zen Internet has polled 1,000 SME employees in the country and discovered that 83 per cent consider unreliable connections annoying.&nbsp;Of that number, 85 per cent claim poor internet is affecting their productivity, to the tune of more than an hour (72 minutes) a day being lost \u2013 equivalent to two and a half working week a year.<\/p>\n<p>Decreasing productivity aside,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itproportal.com\/features\/how-will-edge-computing-impact-the-global-connectivity-landscape\/\">poor internet<\/a> also makes frustrated colleagues and stressed workers. The report goes so far to say that workplace stress makes people overeat (24 per cent), smoke (19 per cent) and drink alcohol (16 per cent).To make matters even worse \u2013 there&#8217;s a domino effect to it. Poor internet connectivity can also mean annoyed customers, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK has long sought ways to improve its productivity, but this research shows it\u2019s a near impossible task if it doesn\u2019t solve its connectivity issue too,\u201d comments Georgina Lord, MD of Zen Retail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnectivity is a fundamental part of how any business operates from reaching new customers to streamlining their core services and operations. Businesses need a reliable internet connection that delivers the capabilities they require to do their job and doesn\u2019t leave employees twiddling their thumbs for hours each week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lousy connections lead to a decrease in productivity, a frustrated workforce and unhappy customers Employee productivity has always been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-services","tag-internet-speeds","tag-slow-internet","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aa-computerservices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}